It was initially created again in 2005 by Solar Microsystems for its proprietary Solaris Unix methods, “for troubleshooting kernel and utility issues on manufacturing methods in actual time,” explains Wikipedia. “DTrace can be utilized to get a world overview of a operating system, similar to the quantity of reminiscence, CPU time, filesystem and community assets utilized by the lively processes,” explains its Wikipedia entry.
However this week, Gentoo introduced:
The true, legendary DTrace involves Gentoo! Have to dynamically hint your kernel or userspace packages, with rainbows, ponies, and unicorns — and all completely safely and in manufacturing?! Gentoo is now prepared for that!
Simply emerge dev-debug/dtrace and also you’re all set. All required kernel choices are already enabled within the latest secure Gentoo distribution kernel…
Documentation? Positive, there’s a lot of it. You can begin with our DTrace wiki web page, the DTrace for Linux web page on GitHub, or the unique documentation for Illumos. Get pleasure from!
Due to Heraklit (Slashdot reader #29,346) for sharing the information.